Re: [PATCH] Still a mm bug in the fork error path

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, John Byrne wrote:
>
> In my kernel, it was a SIGKILL to a forking kernel thread that caused 
> the problem. While I see SIGKILLs being sent to some kernel threads, I 
> don't know if any of the kernel threads ever fork. If they don't, 
> barring a demented root user sending SIGKILLs to kernel threads, I don't 
> know if anyone else will ever see this. So, I don't have any problems 
> with it being fixed post 2.6.9.

Heh. Andrew picked up the patch anyway, so in it goes.

		Linus
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